[HPforGrownups] Book 5 prediction

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 27717

Kewpie wrote:

> I don't know if someone talked about this before already (I'm sure
> there is, I've been going thru. the archieve roughly for the past
> week too),  about Book 5, after reading many J.K. Rowling interview,
> I'm pretty much confident to say that the person who's a "Harry's
> fan" will die is Dumbledore. I totally don't see the point of killing
> off minor characters like Ginny or Colin and such, because similar
> situation already happen in GoF, the impact of "the death of a minor
> chara" has already been done. So in Book 5, a very major chara will
> die and it'll be Dumbledore.  and I read an interview that J.K.
> Rowling said book 5 will be "the end of an era", which strengthen the
> idea of Dumbledore's death (the end of the "dumbledore as headmaster
> era").  I think Dumbledore probably predicted his death already and
> told the teachers. Probably he told Snape to do something after his
> death (like become the next Headmaster?  no...McGonagall will be the
> next Headmaster and Snape might replace McGonagall?)
> anyways, I would like to know if anyone agress with me.

I agree with you.  I think Rowling has been preparing both Harry
and the reader for this for the past two or three books:  having
Dumbledore show his age, having him warn Harry that he
(Dumbledore) won't always be around to save the day, etc.  From a
storytelling standpoint, it's almost essential that Dumbledore be
taken out of the picture soon so that Harry will be forced to
stand on his own two feet as a hero.  There's a =reason= why the
Wise Old Man is so routinely disposed of (at least temporarily)
in story after story:  Merlin, Gandalf, Obi-Wan Kenobi, they're
all too much of a crutch for the main character to be allowed to
stick around indefinitely.  It's possible that Rowling will break
with tradition in this matter, but if so, she'll still have to
deal with that problem somehow.

I also wouldn't be at all surprised to see Snape succeeding
Dumbledore as Headmaster.  Let Lucius Malfoy think it's =his=
idea . . . and then let him find out how wrong he is . . .  >:)


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>